She raised her voice a little; guessed I was deef, probably." "If she'd guessed you was dumb she wouldn't have been fur off," commented Dorinda.

I had not seen her so disturbed for many a day.
Her husband disdained to notice this interruption.
"'Mrs.Comfort Paine,' says she," he continued.

"'She is in?
And I says 'In ?'" "No, you didn't.

You said, 'In where ?' And she had all she could do to keep from laughin'.

I see her face as I got to the door, and it's a mercy I got there when I did.